Daily Mail

The French word for shop is ‘magasin’. We reckon they’re onto something, the French (beyond the nice art and the poodles and stuff), because magazines and retail go together like snails and garlic butter.

Except it’s the wrong way round. Instead of publishers exerting their incredible influence and ready-made audiences to do something magical with retail, they’ve let the shopkeepers jump them gun on them and launch their own magazines.